NPR Host Fired Over Involvement With Occupy DC
Draws comparisons with Juan Williams firing
Freelance broadcaster Lisa Simeone was fired from public radio program Soundprint yesterday after NPR took issue with her role as a spokesperson for the Occupy DC protests, despite the fact that she is not officially employed by the organization.
Simeone’s conflict with NPR was first reported by Roll Call and eventually ended up on Fox News before she was officially fired, evoking another infamous NPR termination. “The whole thing, right down to the firing-by-phone-after-pickup-from-Fox, has echoes of the Juan Williams debacle,” wrote Politico's Keach Hagey, “and is likely to worsen public radio's political woes, even if Simeone was not an NPR employee.”
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